The ₹3,60,000-crore Har Ghar Jal scheme aims to provide piped water to all 19.14 crore rural households by 2024, against 9.9 crore rural households today and 3.23 crore in August 2019.
In pockets of 209 districts in 25 states/UTs, arsenic level in groundwater is above max permissible limit of 0.01 mg/litre. Parts of 491 districts have iron levels above 1 mg/l
It is the time of the year to start chasing dark clouds over the Arabian Sea. Normal rains will offset the demand recession induced by the pandemic and wash away a lot of the country’s woes.
